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on Friday May 11 2018, @12:26PM
from the BBC-thinks-it's-a-paragraph-break-after-a-period dept.
from the BBC-thinks-it's-a-paragraph-break-after-a-period dept.
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In what may be one of the most controversial studies of the year, researchers at Skidmore College—clearly triggered by a change in the American Psychological Association (APA) style book—sought to quantify the benefits of two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence. After conducting an eye-tracking experiment with 60 Skidmore students, Rebecca L. Johnson, Becky Bui, and Lindsay L. Schmitt found that two spaces at the end of a period slightly improved the processing of text during reading. The research was trumpeted by some press outlets as a vindication of two-spacers' superiority.
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Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @12:58PM (2 children)
https://www.xkcd.com/1285/ [xkcd.com]
How was this not in the summary?
Truly, a most vexing omission.
> from the BBC-thinks-it's-a-paragraph-break-after-a-period dept.
To be fair, I find BBC articles quite a bit more readable than other newspapers.
It doesn't work for long articles, but for a typical short news article, I like it.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @01:56PM
Since it is practically guaranteed that someone will quote any relevant XKCD comic in the comments, it is not necessary to quote them in the summary. Indeed, not doing so is a service to the readers, giving them an easy topic for a comment.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Friday May 11 2018, @03:20PM
Gosh, I'm sorry you were vexed. Here's a diff.
--- before 2018-05-11 08:26:00.000000000
+++ after 2018-05-11 11:14:52.894850798
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
MrPlow writes:
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In what may be one of the most controversial studies of the year, researchers at Skidmore College—clearly triggered by a change in the American Psychological Association (APA) style book—sought to quantify the benefits of two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence. After conducting an eye-tracking experiment with 60 Skidmore students, Rebecca L. Johnson, Becky Bui, and Lindsay L. Schmitt found that two spaces at the end of a period slightly improved the processing of text during reading. The research was trumpeted by some press outlets as a vindication of two-spacers' superiority.
+Because this may be difficult to understand, it may interest you to know that a popular cartoonist with meager drawing skills (to put it kindly) has published a comic showing stick figures standing around holding signs stating their positions.
+Perhaps if this is a problem for you, it may help to seek it out and view it.
Source: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/two-spaces-after-period-are-better-than-one-except-maybe-they-arent-study-finds/ [arstechnica.com]